Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 13:23:31 +0300 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@people.tecnik93.com> To: Gerhard Schmidt <estartu@augusta.de> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pkg-msgs collect to end of install Message-ID: <20050502132331.6060ba55@it.buh.tecnik93.com> In-Reply-To: <20050502101853.GA83865@augusta.de> References: <20050502062903.GA82621@augusta.de> <1115027238.1003.7.camel@dirk.no.domain> <20050502101853.GA83865@augusta.de>
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On Mon, 2 May 2005 12:18:53 +0200 Gerhard Schmidt <estartu@augusta.de> wrote: > On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 07:47:18PM +1000, Sam Lawrance wrote: > > On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 08:29 +0200, Gerhard Schmidt wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I've done a lot of updating and installing of ports lately. I have seen > > > plenty of pkg-messages scroll up the screen unable to read them because > > > the port which printed them where installed as a dependency. > > > > > > It might by a good idea to collect all the messages displayed by depenancy > > > ports an display them at the end. > > > > I thought about this briefly a couple days ago. I had an idea that it > > might be useful if things like pkg-message could be optionally emailed > > to a chosen user. Especially handy for ports that require attention > > post-installation, and describe this in their pkg-message. > > Mail would work for singe Workstations but for several servers this would > end up in getting serveral mails with the same messages. And the risk of > losing some important information would grow with the number of Mails. > > Much simpler. Collect all pkg-msg in a tmp file an display this tempfile > with ${PAGER} at the end of the make command. On the other side mail is something that lasts, while console output is more tricky; for example what if you are in a screen(1) or the text is larger that console buffer ? Anyway this would be optional and set via a know in make.conf, right ? -- IOnut Unregistered ;) FreeBSD "user"
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